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Pakistan: Balochistan bleeds as BYC report alleges state-led killings
Updated : 3 weeks, 1 day ago IST
A new report released by the Baloch Yakjehti Committee has alleged a disturbing escalation in extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and staged police encounters across Balochistan during February, raising fresh concerns about Pakistan's security policies in the province, as reporte
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HRCP slams Pakistan's CCD for 924 deaths in 'staged' encounters
Updated : 3 weeks, 5 days ago IST
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has accused Punjab's Crime Control Department of institutionalising staged police encounters. The report recorded over 900 deaths in 2025, alleging systemic extrajudicial killings and a lack of mandatory investigations. HRCP has called for an immediate
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Pakistan Human Rights Commission highlights decline in civic freedoms, det
Updated : 10 months, 2 weeks ago IST
In his remarks at the launch of annual report, HRCP chairperson Asad Iqbal Butt highlighted continued state-sanctioned violence in 2024, with at least 379 officially reported new cases of enforced disappearance, two extrajudicial killings of persons suspected of blasphemy and 4,864 staged po
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US blacklists Pak cop Rao Anwar for corruption, serious human rights abuse
Updated : 6 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Dec 11 (ANI): The United States has blacklisted former Karachi police officer Rao Anwar for "serious human rights abuses" during his term as Senior Superintendent Police for allegedly killing dozens of innocent people including Waziristan native Naqeebullah Mehsud in "
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